Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Three Pathfinder Bestiaries

So I received a copy of Pathfinder Bestiary today in the mail - an eBay auction win, at a reasonable price.

I finally have all three of the beautiful and highly inspirational Pathfinder Bestiaries. Here they are:

Most of the monsters are old hat, but some of the new ones are fun and some old ones have a nice spin on them I find makes them even better monsters. So I'm pretty happy. This goes right into the "to read" list. Pathfinder might be a bit too rules-heavy for me (yet also too abstract, oddly) but it's clearly for gamers, by gamers - and their stuff is just beautiful and well done. Oh, and Doug Cole has a series on it, too, if you want to see what a GURPS player who is also a Pathfinder player thinks of it.

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Now I have to get back on the horse and continue. I lost a lot of wind when I hit the 100-page list of magic spells. I think I have a way of chopping that down to something manageable, but yeesh, that was daunting.

Plus, real life happened. I started the read-through on Jan 15, 2013. So it's taking me a long time to wade through it all. Not the least reason because it's not my primary system.

I guess we'll just have to disagree - there are only so many times I can read the exact same take on, say, a medusa, or a giant, or whatever, and get nothing out of it. I'm buying books for a system I don't even play for inspiration and it needs to have something new in it.